The Architect
Structured and legacy-driven; builds the systems and institutions that last.
Charles Koch is The Architect in its purest form. At Koch Industries he built Market-Based Management, a proprietary philosophy governing how thousands of employees think, decide, and operate, then institutionalised it so thoroughly that it functions independently of him. This is not strategy in the quarterly sense.
“At the same time, not make people's lives worse. So many of these policies haven't done anything, reduce CO2, but they make people's lives worse, particularly the poorest. And the biggest contribution or the biggest reduction has been in the US in recent years because of fracking of natural gas substituting for coal. And so the U.S.”
“And the first was digging dandelions. The reason I say digging, you can't just cut them off or pull them. You've got to get all the roots out or they just come back. So that was my job. And then I graduated into shoveling out stalls, feeding the animals, milking cows, digging postals, fixing fence and all that stuff.”
“We had those kind of disagreements decades ago, but I can't think of any of those. Now, we may have a debate on whether this will help or hurt long term, but it is always, will this enable to fulfill our obligation as a business? That is to profit by helping others improve their lives. I mean, what we do is we teach these principles.”
“Help the country long term rather than just help them get it re elected. And so we started doing that and the Republicans seem although far from ideal seem more sympathetic to these so we started supporting Republicans. And then we learned that didn't get us anywhere.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “Charles Koch”
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